Chapter 12 of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories is here in full — 176 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories is here in full — 176 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“It is. It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married. Would you like some? Have you a corkscrew? I'll get glasses.”
Chapter 12 of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories is here in full — 176 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
From this reading “It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.”
a bottle opener that pulls corks
From this reading “Have you a corkscrew?”
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading “It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.”
the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
From this reading “It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.”
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading “It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.”
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “I'll get glasses.””
(plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
From this reading “I'll get glasses.””
joined in matrimony
From this reading “It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Have you a corkscrew?
distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
a bottle opener that pulls corks
From this reading Have you a corkscrew?
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading I'll get glasses.”
(plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
From this reading I'll get glasses.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Have you a corkscrew?
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I'll get glasses.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “It is.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “It is.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading Would you like some?
joined in matrimony
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
at the time that
From this reading It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Would you like some?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Would you like some?
Chapter 12 of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather holds 176 sentences, grouped into 36 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 12 holds 176 sentences of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories, unabridged, divided into 36 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 176 sentences, grouped into 36 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
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